In your field: Dan Jones - "I was once again blown away by the sheer scale of the farming operations"

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

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In your field: Dan Jones - "I was once again blown away by the sheer scale of the farming operations"

I have arrived home following another superb visit to the US - my second trip across the pond as part of my Hybu Cig Cymru Travel Scholarship ‘Not All Meat Is Created Equally'. This time I was in Texas....

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